What is the Basis of “Natural Rights?” [No. 86]

[@readrothbard153]

I'm a big Thomas Jefferson fan, but a Spoonerite on consent.

[@allandurning3rd364]

Great 👍 video Army AL

[@shawn3693]

natural rights are God-given rights. they are actual property : the the enjoyment of life and liberty, with the means of acquiring and possessing property, and pursuing and obtaining happiness and safety. since God created is, we fall under His jurisdiction. natural rights apply in God's jurisdiction.

[@TheBriRu]

This would have been one for Richard Epstein

[@shawn3693]

this is Section 1 of Virginia Declaration of Rights, it predates the Constitution for the United States: That all [flesh and blood] men [and women] are by nature [created by God] equally free and independent [personally sovereign], and have certain inherent [natural, God-given] rights, of which, when they enter into a state of society [legal definition of society (community) is a collective organization of corporations; ie fictitious entities; ie the matrix], they cannot, by any compact [contract] deprive or divest their posterity [only themselves]; namely, the enjoyment of life and liberty, with the means of acquiring and possessing property, and pursuing and obtaining happiness and safety. Notice how one can be born THEN enter a state of society? the bill of rights only applies to people; men and women. the word "person" is defined as a "corporation", when you are a member of society, i.e. person, individual, us citizen, driver, etc etc etc, it is the avatar that exists in society, avatars have privileges because only real people can have natural rights. technically, we have no constitutional rights--that's why judges often get pissed off at defendants (think fictitious entities) claiming to have constitutional rights because the constitution merely AFFIRMS natural rights, whatever "constitutional" rights there are have been statutized into privileges for the avatar. Constitutional rights that people think exist don't actually exist .

[@HolyPelvisPresley]

That's bs explanation

[@michealludy9910]

I find this explanation lacking in both reason and substance. I can find only one simple explanation for natural rights, and it follows: When a person is born, their birth brings into the world an amount of life that only exists because they exist. That life is made up of minutes and seconds of attention and effort. Since the individual and the life are indivisible, then clearly the person has ownership of the life. By indivisible, I mean that you can not destroy one, either the person or the life, without ending the other. This is a simple property right, and as with with all property rights; since we own a thing we also own that which we trade it away for and our property may not justly be taken, damaged or diminished by the actions of any other, nor may our use of it be limited or infringed by any other or group so long as our use of that property is not a violation of the rights of another. Unfortunately, the full application of this principal leaves little room for the laws, income taxes, property taxes and debts to society that our governments and their legal systems are so inextricably addicted to. The systems that we are trained like dogs to consider right, just and moral.